{"id":26512,"date":"2022-10-14T13:04:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T13:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=26512"},"modified":"2022-10-14T13:04:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T13:04:29","slug":"jeremy-hunt-appointed-new-chancellor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/10\/14\/jeremy-hunt-appointed-new-chancellor\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Hunt appointed new chancellor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No 10 has confirmed that <strong>Jeremy Hunt<\/strong> has been appointed Britain\u2019s new Chancellor of the Exchequer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former foreign secretary and Tory leadership contender will be the fourth chancellor this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Jeremy_Hunt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Jeremy_Hunt<\/a> has been appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hmtreasury?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HMTreasury<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bldKWr3crG\">pic.twitter.com\/bldKWr3crG<\/a><\/p>&mdash; UK Prime Minister (@10DowningStreet) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/10DowningStreet\/status\/1580904750685777920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2022\/oct\/14\/kwasi-kwarteng-chancellor-tory-discontent-mini-budget-liz-truss-corporation-tax-uk-politics-live?page=with:block-63495cbe8f0868dbfd2dee2e#block-63495cbe8f0868dbfd2dee2e\"><\/a>Here\u2019s the letter from <strong>Liz Truss<\/strong> to her former chancellor <strong>Kwasi Kwarteng<\/strong> in full:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Liz Truss\u2019s response to Kwarteng ties him into economic plan &#8211; he referred to it as \u201cyour\u201d vision, she says \u201cwe share the same vision\u201d. <br><br>Also, she implies he resigned rather than was sacked &#8211; \u201cI deeply respect the decision you have taken today\u201d.<br><br>Scapegoat? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0cvAy5zeon\">pic.twitter.com\/0cvAy5zeon<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PippaCrerar\/status\/1580902368434016256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No 10 has confirmed that Jeremy Hunt has been appointed Britain\u2019s new Chancellor of the Exchequer. The former foreign secretary and Tory leadership contender will be the fourth chancellor this year. Here\u2019s the letter from Liz Truss to her former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng in full:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":26513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[461,12],"tags":[5307,1425,8248,7776,9974,5840,255,5350,3954],"class_list":["post-26512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-world-news","tag-britain","tag-chancellor","tag-jeremy-hunt","tag-kwesi-kwarteng","tag-leadership","tag-liz-truss","tag-tory","tag-twitter","tag-will"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}